Trade unions and workers rights

A to Z

• Agricultural workers' rights
• Ask your employer to set up a European Works Council
• Being monitored at work: workers' rights
• Being taken to an employment tribunal
• Derecognise a union
• Employers: preventing discrimination
• Employers: recognise a trade union
• If your business faces industrial action
• Personal data an employer can keep about an employee
• Pregnant employees' rights
• Reasonable adjustments for disabled workers
• Recruitment and disabled people
• Retirement age
• The rights of trade union reps
• Training and study at work: your rights
• Working with trade unions: employers
• Workplace bullying and harassment
• Your rights if your employer is insolvent

Detailed guidance

• Trade union administration and membership

Employing people

• Contracts of employment and working hours

  Includes types of worker, employee rights, overtime and changes to contracts

• Dismissing staff and redundancies

  Resignations, dismissals, disciplinaries and redundancy pay

• Health and safety at work

  Accidents, health and safety law and workplace conditions

• Payroll

  PAYE for employers, getting started, reporting and paying HMRC, expenses and benefits

• Pensions for your staff

  Includes workplace pensions and Combined Pension Statements

• Recruiting and hiring

  Advertise a job, Disclosure and Barring (DBS) checks, discrimination law and apprenticeships

• Statutory leave and time off

  Includes maternity and paternity leave, holiday entitlement and sick pay

• Trade unions and workers rights

  Includes industrial action and recognising trade unions

All categories

• Benefits
• Births, deaths, marriages and care
• Business and self-employed
• Citizenship and living in the UK
• Crime, justice and the law
• Disabled people
• Driving and transport
• Education and learning
• Employing people
• Environment and countryside
• Housing and local services
• Money and tax
• Passports, travel and living abroad
• Visas and immigration
• Working, jobs and pensions